May 19, 1939 (6 pages)

"a lpedeaeaeaetaiaienminaamianel ——e AY INING DE PMENT ISSUE _ Thinking Out Loud . By H.M. L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Nevada City Nugget wa? if in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists iable ends, —-Alexander Hamiloe Next year is the year of national elections. We shall elect a President, representatives, a United States senator, and state senators and assemlblymen. A year from now the ttwo great parties will be preparing for their national conventions. In view of this prospect, it behooves not only Republicans but those Democrats who find the present ‘administration unsatisfactory to get ready (for ithe battle at the polls. We call attention here to four of the issues -which we. think should be well defined in ‘the national election next year. (a) Shall the Federal government continue to administer relief or shall the states take it over completely with grants of aid from the Federal government when tthe need thereof is-well determined? (b) Shall both capital and labor be regulated and acts on the part of either group adverse to the public interest, be, prdqhibited? (c) (Shall special, groups, such as the farmers, continue to be subsidized by the Federal government at the expense of all the people? (d) Shall the Federal government continue to engage in idustrial ‘enterprises ‘in competition with its own cithzens? There are four broad questions of national policy which should tbe answered in next year’s elections. Relative to relief we have long been convinced that the only economical and really effective method of handling relief is through local city and county authorities. The close scrutiny a board of supervisors give ito applicants for relief, for instance, is a very different thing from the administration of a political appointee, who does not have to answer to the tax payers. Were relief administration returned wholly ‘to the states, and states, in turn, gave the counties tht authority to ttake care of the needy, we are well convinced that slackers, habitual Bums and boondogglers in the vast majority of local governments ‘would vanish. The waste of political favoritism, incompetence, nepotism, and outright raseality, would for the most part disappear, instead of being rife throughout ithe entire relief administration as they are today. And of equal importance, it would be practically impossible ‘to use the needs of the destitute to build up a vast political :machine on a permanent basis. Regarding the regulation of capital and labor, we believe that an honest attempt should be made to curb the greed and ‘power of both. It makes no difference whether we surrender too much power to the DuPonts or to John L. Lewis. We may be certain that either the capital or ithe labor group will misuse that power. The National Industrial Association in its heyday was no more of a tyrant than the Lewis labor organization is today under the charter of the Wagmer act. It was old Commodore Vanderbilt who is credited with coining the slogan: “The public ibe damned!”’ While the captains of industry have ‘been somewhat chastened since his time, we have a new ‘despotism using {the same slogan, When one man can halt the coal mining industry, for instance, in order to create a monopoly for his especial following among the coal miners, that is too mutch power to be placed in one man’s hands. The power to subsidize, as the farmers are now finding, carries with it the power to coerce and to regiment. Some of them like it, probably a majority of them do not. For aiftter all the growers of wheat, cotton and tobacco, the crops chiefly subsidized, are a small minority of all farmers. But whether or not it benefits all of them, ‘the group that is subsidized is énjoying a special advantage at the expense of all the tax payers. Subsidies invariably create a pressure group who seek to make a temporary Measure a permanent institution. .Pressure groups, by. and large, are a direct menace to our democracy. Their factionalism, the greed for government aid, vor special advantage, become sources of contention that rack and tear national unity. Under the soil erosion preventive plans a majority of farmers, undoubtedly, could Vol. 13, No. 40. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center ae ; FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939. Edgar Williams, Scout Executive, who has taken the place of Harold Ricksecker, who resigned to accept a similar post in Marin county, gave an interesting talk on scouting at. the Rotary luncheon at noon Thursday. A report from the Nevada City Co-ordinating council, organized ‘sometime since at the suggestion of Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson, and sponsored iby the Rotary club, was received. The report, from (Mrs. Beatrice Bonner, chairman, stated that the (Nevada City council had agreed to advance dollar for dollar up to $250 money raised from club and private contributions, to defray the expenses of a three months playground and,re'treation program at Pioneers Park this summer. The cost of employing playground supervisors and securing a start in playground equipment was set at $500. f The Co-ordinating council was organized to combat conditions which have led-during the past two years. to delinquency among Nevada City children: The‘attention of the club was called to this condition some three months ago by A. W. McGagin, county probation officer. Memibers of the club were deeply moved by his recital of facts concerning youth delinquency, which as an officer of the county he had encountered. The Co-ordinating council was organized and the summer playground plan is the first result.of its activity. It is proposed to establish tournaSummer Playground Program At Park’ ments in Pioneers Park, in such sports as soft ball, archery, baseball, horse shoes, and other diversions. Teams will be organized, it is planned! to meet the needs of beys and girls in all ages and: weights. The money to be raised is expected to be used to employ comeptent suvervicors and playground directors. Scout Executive Williams stated that Rotary was organized in’ 1905 and had grown to be a ‘world-wide organization with 150,000 members. Two years later the Boy Scouts were organized and it had grown in the 32 years of its existence to a ,worldwide membership of 1,500,000. Both are lay organizatins, in which the membership is governing body. He called attention to the fact that in totalitarian states the first organization o be suppressed is the Rotary, and the second the Boy Scouts. Rotary and other service ‘clubs have given the scout organization their greatest impetus ‘throughout the world, and the ‘success attendant upon. scouting is langely due to the interest Rotarians have taken in them. In the United States one out of every two boys of scouting age, is a scout, and the proportion is getting larger. In a very few years, he said, Scout Cubs will outnumber the Boy Seouts. The average length of service in a Scout troop is well over two years, so it can ‘be seen that scouting fills a very important place in a scout’s lifé. Next to the Bible, the Scout Handbook leads in the sale of all books in all languages. MURCHIE MEN TO The second annual picnic of the . miners of the Zeibright and Mur-) chie mines at Newada City and Pennsylvania mine in Browns Valley will’ ground on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of this city Sunday, May 28. All miners: that have ‘been transferred, from the Murchie to other proper. ties an'd merchants of Nevada City . and Grass Valley are invited to at-. tend. . Tickets are on sale in Nevada City . Drug store and two places in Grass Valley. The tickets were placed in. the two cities to make it more convenient for business men and miners at other properties to purchase them without having to go to the Murchie or Zeibright mines where they are on sale to the men employed. Merchants in both cities have donated prizes for sports events. Plans are to make the picnic and program bigger and better than last year. Hot pasties, will ‘be served with the regular dinner and there will be ice cream soda and beer for every one. The afternoon will be filled with games, athletic events and dancing. benefit. Honesitly administered, it should preserve the fertility and restore much that has been lost in agricultural resources in the Jast careless hundred years. It is questionable, however, whether under private initiative most of this might not be done when the need becomes great enough. Regarding the last question, that of Federal engagement in business in competition with private ‘business, as is being done in the Tennessee Valley. ‘Proponents of the plan plead that. a yard-stick must be created by government to measure and. thereby regulate private electric utility enterprises. If this logic prevails there are several hundred industries which may ibe measured and regulated by government expenditure of further vast funds, The real answer is that these yard-sticks cost too much. (Monopolies or any other business can be regulated for far less than by setting up vast plants that impair or destroy those creatPICNIC MAY 28 4 . be held at the same beautiful picnic; at Dave Richards and ERG en . . ed by private enterprise, WAR FILM SHOWN IN TWO CHURCHES “The Fight f@ Peace’’ illustrated with motion pictures in sound, was the subject presented by Albert J. Lebeck, writer and lecturer, last evening in the Methodist church of this ‘city. The film will be shown this Friday evening in Trinity Full Gospel church in Grass Valley. The 2,500 foot film a Hendrich Van Loon production, is a collection of authentic news-releases, many of which have never been shown before or seen the scissors of a censor. This film is filled with 70 minutes of ‘breath taking, heart rendering scenes of present day history. The addition of sound, makes the picture even more realistic, giving one the impression of sitting on the sidglines and observing the greatest events of the past 25 years. “Fight for Peace’, opens with a running story of ‘the current Armament race by all nations—the Russian Revolution, a brief review of the World War and in rapid sulccession follows the march of Dictators and their threat to World Peace; the rise of Mussolini and the invasion of Ethiopia; Hitler’s climb to power in the Reich and his march to the east; the expansion of the Japanese Empire and the war in China; the Civil War in Spain, Madrid being wrecked by bombs, streets strewed with the dead, the populace digging in the ruins in search for their loved ones, and whole city blocks burning. MOUNTAIN PLAYERS TO GIVE MELODRAMA The Mountain Players of Allegh-. any is giving a benefit play Saturday May 20 for the P. T. A. of that city. The play is a melodrama ‘On the Bridge at Midnight.’”’ The production committee are, Edgar Davey, Jack Campbell, Milo Nelson, WaltFIVE STUDENTS WILL SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT The speaker for the high school commencement exercises *have been ; chosen. They were nominated and elected by the class, who chose eight, Then the faculty selected four chosen were, Alice Norton, Jean Muscardini. The class president, Bill Joyal will speak about the senior class and the student body president John Muscardini, will speak about student government. The other three Speakers will have various topics of interest to seniors. ELKS WILL TRECK TO PORTOLA INITIATION Nevada City Lodge of Elks, No. 518 will go to Portola, Plumas county, this Saturday. Cliff Merriam, Exalted Ruler of Nevada City lodge and other members will take part in the ritual of initiation and help initiate a large class of candidates. Those who plan to attend should contact Secretary John Fortier so that ‘plans for transportation may be completed. NEVADA CITY HAS 870 GRADUATE “FROM PLACER JR. Nevada City has eight graduates on the list. of prospective associates in art to be granted at Placer Junior College May 31 at commencement exercises. Dean Wyman E. Olson. has: announced 49 students are candidates for graduation, subject to the out+ come of examinations that commerce next week. ‘Those isted from Nevada City are (Matt Burgan, Marq Joan Campbell, Veronica Davies, Mervin Doolittle, Mary: Lou Draper, Bill Pendola,.Dorothy Thomas and Tom. Rickard. The Nevada City group has ‘been outstanding in many activities on the campus during the two years they ters in sports. Miss Draper and Miss Thomas have been prominent in the social activities of the school. NUGGET ITEMS READ AROUND THE WORLD NEW YORK, May 18.—If you were to visit Burrelle’s Press Clipping Bureau in downtown Manhattan, you’d find a hundred young girls doing nothing but reading newspapers ‘and magazines. The offices, which overlook the Hudson river, are as quiet as a library reading room, and all you see are newspapers stacked in piles ready to be read and clipped. Harold Wynne, a young college graduate who is the president of this unusual organization says: “Our girls enjoy reading the Nevada City Nugget and you will be interested in knowing that we send clippings from your paper to all parts of the world. Today, in faroff China or Japan, some government official is reading the articles which were published in the Nugget about the. Chinese-Japanese war.” WILLIAMS PROPERTY Williams of Grass Valley on Deer Creek, a mile west of Newton bridge where several ledges are being developed. The main development is on the (Manila ledge intersecting between the Kentucky Ridge and Niagara ledges. There are several other ‘er Bowman and Lester Meyers. Act-! claims in the property. It is stated ors in the play are, Dick Hotchkiss,'a ditch will be constructed to bring Constance Sinnot, Erleen Rogers, Lyalette M. Webb, Tom Hogan, Vera . . water to the seene of operations. Considerable work has been done in Smith, Amy Westall, Doris Baker,. the past by tunnel method of mining. Ethel Polglase, Nonie Brunning, George Baker, Walter Johnson; swe Smith, Weston Wyllie. The actors and actresses have been practicing faithfully and the coming event is looked forward to with keen anticipation, — Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Freshour, / Mrs. Margaret Wells and Keith ; Douglass Johnson .of San Jose will arrive today to spend a few days visiting: Mrs. Freshour’s sister, Mrs. Howard Burr and Mr. Burr. other than the class president. Those’ have been in school. Burgan, Doo-: / little and Pendola earned block letMartz, David McCraney and John} . . MINERS FOUNDRY SENDS CREWS TO BUILD MILLS The Miners Foundry of Nevada City has two crews out erecting mills or other equipment in different districts. Between 12 and 15 men left the first of the week for the Indian Valley mine in ‘Plumas county where the mill that was burned last fall is being rebuilt and ‘parts replaced. The mill building which was formerly of wood will be all steel. The new mill will have about a 175 ton daily capacity. All one ton side dump ore cars are being replaced with the ton and a half size cars. :The foundry is also making 15,000 feet of ‘six inch Pipe and it will be installed at the mine. The company sent four men to the Argonaut mine in Amador county where’ they are making installation of a tailings plant for the Argonaut company. Three men have just returned from installing ejuipment at the ‘Poverty Hill mine near Challenge. Army Adams of Grass Valley is in charge of the Poverty Hill operations. TEIBRIGHT TO SINK SHAFT 600. FEET DEEPER Work will start Monday or early next week on a sinking program at the Zeibright mine in Bear Valley ditional 600 feet. This will make the shaft 1100 feet deep and develop more ore for the huge mill at the property. The mine is operated by the Newmont company who are operating the Murchie at Nevada City, Empire-Star and Pennsylvania at Graiss Valley and Pennsylvania in Browns Valley. ie McGINNIS PLACER LEASED The old Jack Williams property in the Quaker Hill district. owned by Don McGinnis has been ijeased and yesterday surveyors started running lines for a ditch to bring water from the Cascade dith to work the property. There is a 300 foot tunnel on the property -with approximately 20 acres of rich gold bearing gravel. BONNIE BEE companied (Mr. Bray to his property, the Bonnie Bee, north of the Zeispection of ledges ‘was made. The Zeibright vein extends through the Bonnie Bee property.ORIENTAL MINE The Dickey Exploration company of Southern California has started operations on the old Oriental mine F. Cassidy of Nevada City and the late Ray Hawkins of Alleghany. surface and underground. It is expected the mine will become one of the big producers of the district when it gets well underway. Mrs. Florence Dickey of Southern CaliforA new 25 ton per shift capacity! nia is one of the principal owners ball mill has been installed by L. W. . of the new company. CALNEVA MINING COMPANY The Calneva Mining company working the Martel ground on Squirrel Creek in Penn Valley is operating with a dry land dredge. The dredger is on skids, and machinery on the bank moves the equipment as work progresses upstream. Crews are gravel is said to be exposed. DAWSON OPERATIONS _ on the old Balch property on Deer miles. Good values are found in the} gravel, ar ees ee ‘ oe Mine Employment In County Is Increased which will deepen the shaft an ad-. . WEEDS POINT HYDRAULIO MINE Ed.C. Uren, mining engineer, ac-. bright mine Wednesday and an inat Alleghany formerly owned by F. About ten men are employed on the working three’ shifts. Considerable}. Five men are employed by. Mr. ; Dawson on a “doodle bug’ dredger. Creek west of Nevada City, several): : A survey of mine employment over the past month reveals the fact that the total is nearly 100 more than in April survey. Forces have been increased by Idaho Maryland, Lava Cap and in the placer operations of Bramley Leo, Melvill on San Juan_ Ridge, : John Becker is employing eleven men in the Boundary mine in development work. Ancho-Erie is again to be re-opened. It is reported that the Salmon mine at Cherokee is under option and will presently resume operations. There is also a report that an English company is taking samples on the Shovel Placers near Columbia Hill with a possibility of resuming operations. Two dredging operations, one om Deer Creek, the Dawson, and the other, the Calneva, in Penn Valley have begun operations. The result of new and increased mining activity is that the total number of miners now employed is 2,558 with a monthly payroll of $383,200, as compared with 2,459 employed last month with a payroll of $268,(850. The following reports have been received from mine companies:. ANCHO-ERIE PROPERTY Gus Helbach and Fred Anderson of Grass Valley have taken an op-, tion on the Ancho-Erie mine near Graniteville. Crews have cleaned out the old workings and are repairing the buildings and making preparae tions to install new machinery. A compressor was installed and plans call for driving an 1800 cross cut to contact a vein. Anderson is in charge ‘of the work at the mine. Mrs. Lyda . Talbot and brother, Frank Mainhart /of Nevada City are part owners in ‘the Anicho-Erie, { . . ' BOUNDARY MINE A crew is engaged in cleaning up at the Boundary mine south of Grass Valley. The caved portion of the shaft is being repaired and preparations are being made for a new sur. face plant, after a nine year shut ‘down. John Becker, prominent min. ing engineer of Town Talk purchased ‘the property. The superintendent is A. Hellings of Grass Valley. It is reported hydraulicking is in progress at the Weeds Point Gravel mine at Camptonville but water is getting low in the nearby stream. Gravel banks were broken down by blasting. The Channel Mining company with W. A. Fox, president and general manager of San Francisco, is developing the property. No. Men Employed LODE MINES © Payroll. Newmont Empire’ North Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Murchie Tdaho-Maryland New Brunswick . Tdaho BOMOR <25.5-.5.-5. aa Lava Cap Banner— ‘Central Bradley Spanish Others : i Golden Center . 115 Spring Hill Great Northern . Stockton Hill Hot Water Arctic Keller Mack Ancho-Erie {Williams Boundary 39,900 16,650 — 22,500 17,250 retire toro lr meneeee diegeeeeee ponerse weceeees 22 10 nnn et ese he tinensne “McKenzie -.---<0c5) . . Innes Dreg. Co.

"a lpedeaeaeaetaiaienminaamianel ——e AY INING DE PMENT ISSUE _ Thinking Out Loud . By H.M. L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Nevada City Nugget wa? if in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists iable ends, —-Alexander Hamiloe Next year is the year of national elections. We shall elect a President, representatives, a United States senator, and state senators and assemlblymen. A year from now the ttwo great parties will be preparing for their national conventions. In view of this prospect, it behooves not only Republicans but those Democrats who find the present ‘administration unsatisfactory to get ready (for ithe battle at the polls. We call attention here to four of the issues -which we. think should be well defined in ‘the national election next year. (a) Shall the Federal government continue to administer relief or shall the states take it over completely with grants of aid from the Federal government when tthe need thereof is-well determined? (b) Shall both capital and labor be regulated and acts on the part of either group adverse to the public interest, be, prdqhibited? (c) (Shall special, groups, such as the farmers, continue to be subsidized by the Federal government at the expense of all the people? (d) Shall the Federal government continue to engage in idustrial ‘enterprises ‘in competition with its own cithzens? There are four broad questions of national policy which should tbe answered in next year’s elections. Relative to relief we have long been convinced that the only economical and really effective method of handling relief is through local city and county authorities. The close scrutiny a board of supervisors give ito applicants for relief, for instance, is a very different thing from the administration of a political appointee, who does not have to answer to the tax payers. Were relief administration returned wholly ‘to the states, and states, in turn, gave the counties tht authority to ttake care of the needy, we are well convinced that slackers, habitual Bums and boondogglers in the vast majority of local governments ‘would vanish. The waste of political favoritism, incompetence, nepotism, and outright raseality, would for the most part disappear, instead of being rife throughout ithe entire relief administration as they are today. And of equal importance, it would be practically impossible ‘to use the needs of the destitute to build up a vast political :machine on a permanent basis. Regarding the regulation of capital and labor, we believe that an honest attempt should be made to curb the greed and ‘power of both. It makes no difference whether we surrender too much power to the DuPonts or to John L. Lewis. We may be certain that either the capital or ithe labor group will misuse that power. The National Industrial Association in its heyday was no more of a tyrant than the Lewis labor organization is today under the charter of the Wagmer act. It was old Commodore Vanderbilt who is credited with coining the slogan: “The public ibe damned!”’ While the captains of industry have ‘been somewhat chastened since his time, we have a new ‘despotism using {the same slogan, When one man can halt the coal mining industry, for instance, in order to create a monopoly for his especial following among the coal miners, that is too mutch power to be placed in one man’s hands. The power to subsidize, as the farmers are now finding, carries with it the power to coerce and to regiment. Some of them like it, probably a majority of them do not. For aiftter all the growers of wheat, cotton and tobacco, the crops chiefly subsidized, are a small minority of all farmers. But whether or not it benefits all of them, ‘the group that is subsidized is énjoying a special advantage at the expense of all the tax payers. Subsidies invariably create a pressure group who seek to make a temporary Measure a permanent institution. .Pressure groups, by. and large, are a direct menace to our democracy. Their factionalism, the greed for government aid, vor special advantage, become sources of contention that rack and tear national unity. Under the soil erosion preventive plans a majority of farmers, undoubtedly, could Vol. 13, No. 40. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center ae ; FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939. Edgar Williams, Scout Executive, who has taken the place of Harold Ricksecker, who resigned to accept a similar post in Marin county, gave an interesting talk on scouting at. the Rotary luncheon at noon Thursday. A report from the Nevada City Co-ordinating council, organized ‘sometime since at the suggestion of Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson, and sponsored iby the Rotary club, was received. The report, from (Mrs. Beatrice Bonner, chairman, stated that the (Nevada City council had agreed to advance dollar for dollar up to $250 money raised from club and private contributions, to defray the expenses of a three months playground and,re'treation program at Pioneers Park this summer. The cost of employing playground supervisors and securing a start in playground equipment was set at $500. f The Co-ordinating council was organized to combat conditions which have led-during the past two years. to delinquency among Nevada City children: The‘attention of the club was called to this condition some three months ago by A. W. McGagin, county probation officer. Memibers of the club were deeply moved by his recital of facts concerning youth delinquency, which as an officer of the county he had encountered. The Co-ordinating council was organized and the summer playground plan is the first result.of its activity. It is proposed to establish tournaSummer Playground Program At Park’ ments in Pioneers Park, in such sports as soft ball, archery, baseball, horse shoes, and other diversions. Teams will be organized, it is planned! to meet the needs of beys and girls in all ages and: weights. The money to be raised is expected to be used to employ comeptent suvervicors and playground directors. Scout Executive Williams stated that Rotary was organized in’ 1905 and had grown to be a ‘world-wide organization with 150,000 members. Two years later the Boy Scouts were organized and it had grown in the 32 years of its existence to a ,worldwide membership of 1,500,000. Both are lay organizatins, in which the membership is governing body. He called attention to the fact that in totalitarian states the first organization o be suppressed is the Rotary, and the second the Boy Scouts. Rotary and other service ‘clubs have given the scout organization their greatest impetus ‘throughout the world, and the ‘success attendant upon. scouting is langely due to the interest Rotarians have taken in them. In the United States one out of every two boys of scouting age, is a scout, and the proportion is getting larger. In a very few years, he said, Scout Cubs will outnumber the Boy Seouts. The average length of service in a Scout troop is well over two years, so it can ‘be seen that scouting fills a very important place in a scout’s lifé. Next to the Bible, the Scout Handbook leads in the sale of all books in all languages. MURCHIE MEN TO The second annual picnic of the . miners of the Zeibright and Mur-) chie mines at Newada City and Pennsylvania mine in Browns Valley will’ ground on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of this city Sunday, May 28. All miners: that have ‘been transferred, from the Murchie to other proper. ties an'd merchants of Nevada City . and Grass Valley are invited to at-. tend. . Tickets are on sale in Nevada City . Drug store and two places in Grass Valley. The tickets were placed in. the two cities to make it more convenient for business men and miners at other properties to purchase them without having to go to the Murchie or Zeibright mines where they are on sale to the men employed. Merchants in both cities have donated prizes for sports events. Plans are to make the picnic and program bigger and better than last year. Hot pasties, will ‘be served with the regular dinner and there will be ice cream soda and beer for every one. The afternoon will be filled with games, athletic events and dancing. benefit. Honesitly administered, it should preserve the fertility and restore much that has been lost in agricultural resources in the Jast careless hundred years. It is questionable, however, whether under private initiative most of this might not be done when the need becomes great enough. Regarding the last question, that of Federal engagement in business in competition with private ‘business, as is being done in the Tennessee Valley. ‘Proponents of the plan plead that. a yard-stick must be created by government to measure and. thereby regulate private electric utility enterprises. If this logic prevails there are several hundred industries which may ibe measured and regulated by government expenditure of further vast funds, The real answer is that these yard-sticks cost too much. (Monopolies or any other business can be regulated for far less than by setting up vast plants that impair or destroy those creatPICNIC MAY 28 4 . be held at the same beautiful picnic; at Dave Richards and ERG en . . ed by private enterprise, WAR FILM SHOWN IN TWO CHURCHES “The Fight f@ Peace’’ illustrated with motion pictures in sound, was the subject presented by Albert J. Lebeck, writer and lecturer, last evening in the Methodist church of this ‘city. The film will be shown this Friday evening in Trinity Full Gospel church in Grass Valley. The 2,500 foot film a Hendrich Van Loon production, is a collection of authentic news-releases, many of which have never been shown before or seen the scissors of a censor. This film is filled with 70 minutes of ‘breath taking, heart rendering scenes of present day history. The addition of sound, makes the picture even more realistic, giving one the impression of sitting on the sidglines and observing the greatest events of the past 25 years. “Fight for Peace’, opens with a running story of ‘the current Armament race by all nations—the Russian Revolution, a brief review of the World War and in rapid sulccession follows the march of Dictators and their threat to World Peace; the rise of Mussolini and the invasion of Ethiopia; Hitler’s climb to power in the Reich and his march to the east; the expansion of the Japanese Empire and the war in China; the Civil War in Spain, Madrid being wrecked by bombs, streets strewed with the dead, the populace digging in the ruins in search for their loved ones, and whole city blocks burning. MOUNTAIN PLAYERS TO GIVE MELODRAMA The Mountain Players of Allegh-. any is giving a benefit play Saturday May 20 for the P. T. A. of that city. The play is a melodrama ‘On the Bridge at Midnight.’”’ The production committee are, Edgar Davey, Jack Campbell, Milo Nelson, WaltFIVE STUDENTS WILL SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT The speaker for the high school commencement exercises *have been

; chosen. They were nominated and elected by the class, who chose eight, Then the faculty selected four chosen were, Alice Norton, Jean Muscardini. The class president, Bill Joyal will speak about the senior class and the student body president John Muscardini, will speak about student government. The other three Speakers will have various topics of interest to seniors. ELKS WILL TRECK TO PORTOLA INITIATION Nevada City Lodge of Elks, No. 518 will go to Portola, Plumas county, this Saturday. Cliff Merriam, Exalted Ruler of Nevada City lodge and other members will take part in the ritual of initiation and help initiate a large class of candidates. Those who plan to attend should contact Secretary John Fortier so that ‘plans for transportation may be completed. NEVADA CITY HAS 870 GRADUATE “FROM PLACER JR. Nevada City has eight graduates on the list. of prospective associates in art to be granted at Placer Junior College May 31 at commencement exercises. Dean Wyman E. Olson. has: announced 49 students are candidates for graduation, subject to the out+ come of examinations that commerce next week. ‘Those isted from Nevada City are (Matt Burgan, Marq Joan Campbell, Veronica Davies, Mervin Doolittle, Mary: Lou Draper, Bill Pendola,.Dorothy Thomas and Tom. Rickard. The Nevada City group has ‘been outstanding in many activities on the campus during the two years they ters in sports. Miss Draper and Miss Thomas have been prominent in the social activities of the school. NUGGET ITEMS READ AROUND THE WORLD NEW YORK, May 18.—If you were to visit Burrelle’s Press Clipping Bureau in downtown Manhattan, you’d find a hundred young girls doing nothing but reading newspapers ‘and magazines. The offices, which overlook the Hudson river, are as quiet as a library reading room, and all you see are newspapers stacked in piles ready to be read and clipped. Harold Wynne, a young college graduate who is the president of this unusual organization says: “Our girls enjoy reading the Nevada City Nugget and you will be interested in knowing that we send clippings from your paper to all parts of the world. Today, in faroff China or Japan, some government official is reading the articles which were published in the Nugget about the. Chinese-Japanese war.” WILLIAMS PROPERTY Williams of Grass Valley on Deer Creek, a mile west of Newton bridge where several ledges are being developed. The main development is on the (Manila ledge intersecting between the Kentucky Ridge and Niagara ledges. There are several other ‘er Bowman and Lester Meyers. Act-! claims in the property. It is stated ors in the play are, Dick Hotchkiss,'a ditch will be constructed to bring Constance Sinnot, Erleen Rogers, Lyalette M. Webb, Tom Hogan, Vera . . water to the seene of operations. Considerable work has been done in Smith, Amy Westall, Doris Baker,. the past by tunnel method of mining. Ethel Polglase, Nonie Brunning, George Baker, Walter Johnson; swe Smith, Weston Wyllie. The actors and actresses have been practicing faithfully and the coming event is looked forward to with keen anticipation, — Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Freshour, / Mrs. Margaret Wells and Keith ; Douglass Johnson .of San Jose will arrive today to spend a few days visiting: Mrs. Freshour’s sister, Mrs. Howard Burr and Mr. Burr. other than the class president. Those’ have been in school. Burgan, Doo-: / little and Pendola earned block letMartz, David McCraney and John} . . MINERS FOUNDRY SENDS CREWS TO BUILD MILLS The Miners Foundry of Nevada City has two crews out erecting mills or other equipment in different districts. Between 12 and 15 men left the first of the week for the Indian Valley mine in ‘Plumas county where the mill that was burned last fall is being rebuilt and ‘parts replaced. The mill building which was formerly of wood will be all steel. The new mill will have about a 175 ton daily capacity. All one ton side dump ore cars are being replaced with the ton and a half size cars. :The foundry is also making 15,000 feet of ‘six inch Pipe and it will be installed at the mine. The company sent four men to the Argonaut mine in Amador county where’ they are making installation of a tailings plant for the Argonaut company. Three men have just returned from installing ejuipment at the ‘Poverty Hill mine near Challenge. Army Adams of Grass Valley is in charge of the Poverty Hill operations. TEIBRIGHT TO SINK SHAFT 600. FEET DEEPER Work will start Monday or early next week on a sinking program at the Zeibright mine in Bear Valley ditional 600 feet. This will make the shaft 1100 feet deep and develop more ore for the huge mill at the property. The mine is operated by the Newmont company who are operating the Murchie at Nevada City, Empire-Star and Pennsylvania at Graiss Valley and Pennsylvania in Browns Valley. ie McGINNIS PLACER LEASED The old Jack Williams property in the Quaker Hill district. owned by Don McGinnis has been ijeased and yesterday surveyors started running lines for a ditch to bring water from the Cascade dith to work the property. There is a 300 foot tunnel on the property -with approximately 20 acres of rich gold bearing gravel. BONNIE BEE companied (Mr. Bray to his property, the Bonnie Bee, north of the Zeispection of ledges ‘was made. The Zeibright vein extends through the Bonnie Bee property.ORIENTAL MINE The Dickey Exploration company of Southern California has started operations on the old Oriental mine F. Cassidy of Nevada City and the late Ray Hawkins of Alleghany. surface and underground. It is expected the mine will become one of the big producers of the district when it gets well underway. Mrs. Florence Dickey of Southern CaliforA new 25 ton per shift capacity! nia is one of the principal owners ball mill has been installed by L. W. . of the new company. CALNEVA MINING COMPANY The Calneva Mining company working the Martel ground on Squirrel Creek in Penn Valley is operating with a dry land dredge. The dredger is on skids, and machinery on the bank moves the equipment as work progresses upstream. Crews are gravel is said to be exposed. DAWSON OPERATIONS _ on the old Balch property on Deer miles. Good values are found in the} gravel, ar ees ee ‘ oe Mine Employment In County Is Increased which will deepen the shaft an ad-. . WEEDS POINT HYDRAULIO MINE Ed.C. Uren, mining engineer, ac-. bright mine Wednesday and an inat Alleghany formerly owned by F. About ten men are employed on the working three’ shifts. Considerable}. Five men are employed by. Mr. ; Dawson on a “doodle bug’ dredger. Creek west of Nevada City, several): : A survey of mine employment over the past month reveals the fact that the total is nearly 100 more than in April survey. Forces have been increased by Idaho Maryland, Lava Cap and in the placer operations of Bramley Leo, Melvill on San Juan_ Ridge, : John Becker is employing eleven men in the Boundary mine in development work. Ancho-Erie is again to be re-opened. It is reported that the Salmon mine at Cherokee is under option and will presently resume operations. There is also a report that an English company is taking samples on the Shovel Placers near Columbia Hill with a possibility of resuming operations. Two dredging operations, one om Deer Creek, the Dawson, and the other, the Calneva, in Penn Valley have begun operations. The result of new and increased mining activity is that the total number of miners now employed is 2,558 with a monthly payroll of $383,200, as compared with 2,459 employed last month with a payroll of $268,(850. The following reports have been received from mine companies:. ANCHO-ERIE PROPERTY Gus Helbach and Fred Anderson of Grass Valley have taken an op-, tion on the Ancho-Erie mine near Graniteville. Crews have cleaned out the old workings and are repairing the buildings and making preparae tions to install new machinery. A compressor was installed and plans call for driving an 1800 cross cut to contact a vein. Anderson is in charge ‘of the work at the mine. Mrs. Lyda . Talbot and brother, Frank Mainhart /of Nevada City are part owners in ‘the Anicho-Erie, { . . ' BOUNDARY MINE A crew is engaged in cleaning up at the Boundary mine south of Grass Valley. The caved portion of the shaft is being repaired and preparations are being made for a new sur. face plant, after a nine year shut ‘down. John Becker, prominent min. ing engineer of Town Talk purchased ‘the property. The superintendent is A. Hellings of Grass Valley. It is reported hydraulicking is in progress at the Weeds Point Gravel mine at Camptonville but water is getting low in the nearby stream. Gravel banks were broken down by blasting. The Channel Mining company with W. A. Fox, president and general manager of San Francisco, is developing the property. No. Men Employed LODE MINES © Payroll. Newmont Empire’ North Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Murchie Tdaho-Maryland New Brunswick .. Tdaho BOMOR <25.5-.5.-5. aa Lava Cap Banner— ‘Central Bradley Spanish Others : i Golden Center .. 115 Spring Hill Great Northern . Stockton Hill Hot Water Arctic Keller Mack Ancho-Erie {Williams Boundary 39,900 16,650 — 22,500 17,250 retire toro lr meneeee diegeeeeee ponerse weceeees 22 10 nnn et ese he tinensne “McKenzie -..---<0c5) . . Innes Dreg. Co.